noun · neutral
percent
UK/pəˈsɛnt/US/pərˈsɛnt/PER·cent
Band 7+speakingtask1
one part in every hundred; used with numbers to describe proportions
Examples
“Only 5 percent of students said they preferred online classes.”
“The unemployment rate rose by 2 percent last year.”
“A small percent of the sample reported side effects.”
Band 8 sentence
“The proportion of young adults who cycle to work fell by 6 percent between 2010 and 2020.”
Collocations
- increase by X percent
- only X percent
- a small/large percent
Word family
percentage nounper cent noun (alternative spelling)
Common mistakes
in percent→by ___ percent / ___ percent
a percent of→a percentage of / percent
Say it for a higher band
5out of 100→6percentage→7+percent
Synonyms
percentage
proportion
Easily confused
percentage
“A high percentage of respondents supported the proposal.”
proportion
“A large proportion of the sample was under 30 years old.”
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